NASA’s DART Mission Deflected an Asteroid – But Unleashed a Swarm of Space Boulders

Scitech Daily ^ | July 15, 2025 | University of Maryland

[Red Badger]

Who didn’t expect this, raise your hands.................

[MrRelevant]

Released them….Into the vastness of space?

[Magnum44]

Never tell me the odds!

[Red Badger]

Now they have a bunch of rocks travelling at 50k MPH in multitude of directions................

[butlerweave]

These things are like a handful of shredded coconut lightly squeezed together and ready to fall apart

[Sirius Lee]

Ejecta acting like thrust? That’s unheard of.

[rktman]

DOH!

[1Old Pro]

Maybe they need bumpers to made the deflection softer. Or just attach to the asteroid and tow it to another course.

[Crolis]

[Flatus I. Maximus]

No one working on this project ever dropped a quarter in an arcade machine and played “Asteroids?”

[Red Badger]

They are too young to remember Asteroids!................

[Red Badger]

If men can identify a women, then ejecta can identify a thrust.

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.................................

[The Louiswu]

Physics🤣🤣🤣🤣💯💯💯💯

[DouglasKC]

Clearly not! Rule 1 blast the little ones while you can.

[iamgalt]

We had a saying in the tech business: every solution has a problem

[Sirius Lee]

Ejecta doesn’t want equality. It wants reparations and equity.

[Red Badger]

Land a solid rocket booster on it like a J-TOW, tie it down, then just light ‘er up!............

[Carry_Okie]

If the pieces are small, they may pose a risk to orbital assets, but would burn up in the atmosphere if they came to earth. I don’t see how they could have expected any better.

What is maddening about the article is that it doesn’t state Dimorphos’ size to give some perspective on how much of it was dislodged. That its trajectory was changed by a degree could be a lot depending upon how far away it was, but that’s not stated either.

[plain talk]

More to do obviously but it’s a first step. Thanks for posting.